Withered Optimism

Withered Optimismby Jack Kelly

Combining elements of clown, physical comedy, object manipulation and animation Withered Optimism is an arresting visual spectacle about the way we live now.

It’s put upon protagonist is a hapless millennial dreaming of a simpler life yet stretched to breaking point by the violent centrifuge of the corporate world. When one day the pressure finally gets too much his sanity snaps and he is spun off on a hallucinatory odyssey amongst the flotsam and jetsam of late capitalism.

“This spending of the best part of one’s life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it” Henry David Thoreau

“That most rare and tragic of natures mistakes. The average man” The Joker, The Killing Joke, Alan Moore